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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, this was a strongly held byzantine notion, too.
mircea_popescu: "why vote for women ? because if women spend more time talking to the state and less talking to their husbands, the state will be stronger and society weaker"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but the idea being that sybil attacks succeed when and only when the nodes are too agreefull.
mircea_popescu: exactly antitethical to how wots work, incidentally. because coherence is the only possible attacxk against a wot.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque but "how do you know", after all, if opinion enacted reality (or properly, if there were no objective reality past opinions) then his gambit would actually work.
mircea_popescu: right ? whether ou find it or not, it's always there to fuck oyu over the mouth. with a stick.
mircea_popescu: a woman that remembers her time as queen of sheeba and a sow that remembers the greatness of mud make just as good mates for a hog mounting humiliation porn thing.
mircea_popescu: well for that matter the pioneers fired on the british.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> sure one can't apprehend reality in some objective way << if this is true, how come gavin's not getting what he wants ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> well, first hoover, then fdr << the pissing on veterans is a universal sport. this is why being a soldier is dumb, being a mercenary is better.
mircea_popescu: centralism is ever the temptation of the stupid and the lazy, for very good game theoretic reasons : they know that greatness won't be oozing out of them personally any time soon. perhaps if it were all put into this box then it may ooze it ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> which is, as good as any, a demarcation point for the birth of modern usg << more like the birthplace of the central planning element thereof. "we affirm congress has the authority to central plan economic activity"
mircea_popescu: otherwise ordinary romanian can just go "where from ? your mother paid me."
mircea_popescu: btw : he only ended up in jail because he was a politician, and poiliticians exclusively are required to DECLARE their fortune.
mircea_popescu: hanbot lol nastase. totally. he did end up in jail tho.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform door to door shakedowns are incompatible with the present day usg.
mircea_popescu: respectively "please direct any inquiries to the central bank of china / putin / etc"
mircea_popescu: i guess butthurt at it not having worked at all because well... nobody wants their money inside the beast.
mircea_popescu: o look at that, the tax break for repatriating corp profits? aolso gone.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yo, if this bet stays open until the fucking 6th, and it ends at 100k...
mircea_popescu: cazalla im sure it'll be something like "bitpay paid 500k usd to franchise owner" thing
mircea_popescu: does he have like a gpg signed thing from ben_vulpes or something ?
mircea_popescu: since i'm not in the pizzeria business... fuckall i care.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform personally, i dun knowmuch an' i dun care much.
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely comprehend why anyone would leave his heirs anything but btc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, best gift for bitcoin he could have ever made.
mircea_popescu: anything to prevent that ol' capital acumulation thing.
mircea_popescu: then, should your inheritor sell it when it's $10`000, usg wants further capital gains tax. not on 9k, but on $9990
mircea_popescu: specifically : if you bought 1k btc at $10, and you die when it's $1000, usg wants about 400`000, in usd.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you can even blatantly abuse your journalistic position to make moar comedy gold.
mircea_popescu: well if it were easy to say it wouldn't make much of a bet.
mircea_popescu: diff between c2 and fedwiki is that well... fedwiki dun work.
mircea_popescu: lecherous if impotent old men have a comparable preoccupation with "the unfucked"
mircea_popescu: this is just a conspiracy to drink more piss, isn't it.
mircea_popescu: The algae has actually been tested and successfully grown in human urine at 1:180 parts. After 7days, 97% of NH4+-N, 96.5% of total phosphorus (TP) and 85–98% of urea in the urine (ca. 120-diluted) were removed by the microalgae under autotrophic culture (30 °C).
mircea_popescu: <punkman> asciilifeform: because there is less crap to undo? << because it's actually before the "bitcoin is important" point of no return.
mircea_popescu: and now im off to trilemize the dictionary/spec discussion, if anyone wants to be in ask now.
mircea_popescu: however, the absence of "chthulhu" from there will be regarded as prima facie proof that the word in question was in fact not 1900s london argot.
mircea_popescu: note that they usually explain their limitations. "A dictionary of 1900 London argot" won't contain nixonisms
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the only thing that makes you go "this isn't a fucking dictionary" is if you look for a word that should be in but isnt
mircea_popescu: earnest effort never killed anyone. except of course in soviet russia.